The emergence of new technologies and new types of workers. (Hint: pg. 35)
What is Richard Barbrook's definition of the digital economy?
100
These are the two views of “knowledge workers” described by Terranova that determine if the Net is a site of resistance or “gated community for the middle classes” (hint: pg. 40)
What are “owners of elitist cultural and economic power” and “avante-garde of new configurations of labor?”
100
The basis and goal is the mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than
the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities.
What is collective intelligence?
100
The two differences between old and new media.
What is mode of production and workings of power/knowledge?
100
After the pioneering days, television and the Web converge in the one thing they have in common: their reliance on their audiences/users as providers of the cultural labor that goes under the label of “real-life stories.” (Hint: pg. 52)
What is The New Web
200
The moment where knowledgeable consumption of culture is translated into productive activities that are pleasurably embraced and at the same time often shamelessly exploited. (Hint: pg. 37)
What is Free Labor?
200
This is the form of labor described as not being “limited to highly skilled workers but is a form of activity of every productive subject within postindustrial societies.” (hint: pg.41)
What is immaterial labor? (Bonus: Can you name a time you performed immaterial labor?)
200
Competition and flexibility that dominates the hegemonic discourse in this idea.
What is digitization.
200
The author uses this phrase to describe the main complaint of the internet
What is disappearance of reality?
200
This economy really only cares about production and interface with cultural and technical labor.
What is the digital economy?
300
Providing much needed value-added, which is essential to the economic health of the organization as well as not being able to be managed in quite the same way as more traditional
types of labor. (Hint: pg. 37)
What is Human Intelligence?
300
This is the term that describes how the “Internet highlights the existence of networks of immaterial labor and speeds up their accretion into a collective entity.” (hint: pg.42)
What is “collective intelligence?”
300
This highlights the impossibility of absorbing intelligence within the process of
automation.
What is digital economy.
300
The internet was considered to be a part of these two economies after 1994.
What is a gift economy and capitalist economy?
300
Terranova uses an example of this tv show to portray how guests and their stories are normalized to a traditional production.